NASA’s Roman Telescope Unlocks New Chapter in the Search for Alien Worlds
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope team has integrated the innovative Roman Coronagraph Instrument, marking a major milestone in ...
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NASA defends selection of astrophysics probe mission proposals
The APEX program, based on a recommendation from the Astro2020 decadal survey, is designed to fill a gap between smaller Explorer-class astrophysics missions and larger flagship missions like the ...
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Conn gifted $100,000 for new telescope and observatory upgrades
The distant celestial wonders in the sky above New London will soon be more visible than ever. An anonymous Connecticut ...
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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
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'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?
The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...
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NASA delays budget-cut decision about Hubble and Chandra space telescopes
An independent panel has confirmed that if the cuts are applied, then the Chandra mission will most likely be brought to an ...
Astrophysics study explores turbulence in molecular clouds
On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy ...
NASA telescopes discover brown dwarf protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula
Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...
The first 3D view of the formation and evolution of globular clusters
A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by researchers from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), ...